James Gaston

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Sharing the road to Zonza

6 Oct 2017 Cars, Corsica, Zonza, France

Sharing the road to Zonza

6 Oct 2017 Cars, Corsica, Zonza, France

Zonza

We left Serriera for Zonza (pronounced 'tzonz') to do some hiking around the Col de Bavella, which is in the south center of the island. So another day on the road. Fortunately in Corsica the road doesn't mean boring superhighway, it means a two-laner, hugging a mountainside, and squeezing through tiny villages where the buildings are so close you can almost reach out and touch them. The flip side to this lack of superhighways is that what appears to be a short distance on a map will actually take a long while.

Driving in Corsica also involves frequent encounters with wildlife: cows, pigs, donkeys, big-horn sheep, we've shared the road with all of these creatures. My favorites to date have been the herds of big-horn sheep and the donkey that was chasing a cat.

And if you're driving in Corsica this week you're also sharing the road with participants in the Tour de Corse. Zonza, it turns out, is another checkpoint in the road race, so while we travelled today we were frequently passed by speeding Porsches and Alfas and all manner of other vehicles, each covered in stickers and manned by a suited-up driver and navigator. A bit boy racer, a bit dangerous, but I like it, it feels oh so European.

A racer passing us in the corner (Tour de Corse)

Where's that cat?

Passing in a corner (Tour de Corse)

What's for dinner?

Cool blue car on the Tour de Corse

The road to Zonza

Porsches at checkpoint

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